| Pronunciation: | | 'plûru`lizum
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| Matching Terms: | | pluralist, pluralistic
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| | Definition: | | [n] the doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements |
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| | See Also: | | doctrine, ism, philosophy, school of thought |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Plu"ral*ism\, n.
1. The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural
number.
2. (Eccl.) The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than
one ecclesiastical living at a time. [Eng.]
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| | Related Terms: | | a certain number, a few, admixture, alloyage, amalgamation, blending, capriciousness, centralism, changeability, changeableness, choppiness, coalescence, collectivism, combination, comminglement, commingling, commixture, communism, composition, constitutionalism, dappleness, democratism, deviation, difference, differentiation, disorder, divarication, divergence, diversification, dualism, eclecticism, fascism, federalism, feudalism, feudality, fusion, governmentalism, immixture, imperialism, inconsistency, inconstancy, inequality, instability, integration, interfusion, interlarding, interlardment, interminglement, intermingling, intermixture, irregularity, jerkiness, mercuriality, merger, mingling, mixing, mixture, monarchism, more, motleyness, mutability, national socialism, Nazism, neofascism, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, nonuniqueness, numerousness, parliamentarianism, parliamentarism, plurality, pluralness, political principles, raggedness, republicanism, royalism, several, socialism, statism, syncretism, unconformism, unconformity, unevenness, unorthodoxy, unsteadiness, variability, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, wavering |
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